Murex DevOps

Project description

DXC Luxoft has one of the world's leading Murex practices. We are a top-tier Murex Alliance Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration. We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered over 200 successful Murex projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, and insurance.

Whether you possess a background in finance, technology, or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry would be of high interest to us.

Responsibilities

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and operating automated platforms that enable reliable, secure, and scalable delivery of the MX platform across SaaS, cloud, and on-premise environments.

You will play a key role in CI/CD implementation, infrastructure automation, environment management, and production reliability, working closely with development, QA, and client-facing teams.

Key Responsibilities

• CI/CD & Release Engineering
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration, testing, and deployment across multiple environments
• Ensure pipeline stability, performance, and reliability, minimizing build failures and delays
• Implement automated build, packaging, and deployment processes
• Enforce version control best practices (branching strategies, tagging, artifact management)
• Support release cycles, including validation, smoke testing, and rollback strategies
• Automation
• Plan & Code Templates stored in Git repositories alongside application code, allowing template updates to be version-controlled, code-reviewed, and tracked
• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and upgrades
• Build reusable automation components to improve scalability and consistency
• Reduce manual operations through process automation and scripting
• Environment & Platform Management
• Deploy and manage MX environments across development, testing, and production stages
• Handle environment lifecycle:
• Provisioning
• Configuration
• Upgrades & patching
• Decommissioning
• Ensure environments are standardized, reproducible, and compliant
• Support multi-client and multi-environment setups in SaaS or hybrid models
• Monitoring, Observability & Reliability (SRE mindset)
• Implement and maintain:
• Monitoring
• Logging
• Alerting
• Ensure end-to-end observability of platforms and pipelines
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) on incidents
• Contribute to improving system reliability, SLAs, and operational KPIs
• Data & Environment Operations
• Manage environment data lifecycle:
• Data provisioning
• Data masking for non-prod environments
• Data sampling and reduction
• Support database operations:
• Migration
• Sanitization
• Reconciliation
• Ensure compliance with security and data governance requirements
• Incident & Support Management
• Act as a technical escalation point for environment and platform incidents
• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, pipelines, and environments
• Coordinate with support and product teams for resolution
• Ensure proper documentation and knowledge sharing
• Collaboration & Delivery Enablement
• Collaborate with:
• Development teams (integration into CI/CD pipelines)
• QA teams (test automation and environment consistency)
• Product teams (release readiness and constraints)
• Client teams (technical coordination and delivery)
• Contribute to smooth delivery across project lifecycle
• 10. Continuous Improvement & Best Practices
• Promote DevOps principles:
• Automation-first
• Continuous integration & delivery
• Shift-left testing
• Identify inefficiencies and propose improvements
• Contribute to:
• Internal tooling
• Documentation
• Standardization efforts
• Share knowledge and support onboarding of new team members

Skills

Must have

• Strong working knowledge of Murex Configuration and Environment management
• Strong knowledge of scheduler software (e.g. Tidal, Autosys, JAMS, ...etc.)
• Good understanding of MXTest
• Good product knowledge/understanding in IRD, CRD, EQD, FXD
• Good understanding of Workflows, Operations, Fixings process, Confirmations, and Trade Life Cycle
• Strong functional and technical understanding of Murex
• Good knowledge of the different post-trade interactions between the various actors of capital markets including service providers
• Must:
• previous experience, min 2yrs, with Murex Environment management
• MXTest Module (a plus)
• Must have strong personality, logical and analytical skills
• Be detailed-oriented, a quick learner and self-starter
• Possess good verbal and written communication skills
• Must have strong organization skills
• Good SQL, Unix , Scripting , Sybase and Oracle skills

Nice to have

Required Skills & Experience

• 1-2 years of experience in DevOps, CI/CD
• Hands-on experience in production or client-facing environments preferred
• Technical Skills
• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps
• Version control systems: Git (advanced usage)
• Proficiency in template engines, specifically FreeMarker (FTL)
• Scripting: Shell, Python, Groovy
• Operating systems: Linux/Unix
• Cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), Azure/GCP is a plus
• Databases: RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, or similar)
• DevOps & Platform Expertise
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines in complex environments
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools
• Exposure to SaaS / distributed architectures
• Soft Skills
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work under pressure in production environments
• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Team-oriented with strong collaboration mindset
• Proactive and continuous improvement mindset
• Experience